Lamar apologizes to fan but 'just chill next time'

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  • Jamison HensleySep 10, 2025, 05:24 PM ET

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      Jamison Hensley is simply a newsman covering the Baltimore Ravens for ESPN. Jamison joined ESPN successful 2011, covering the AFC North earlier focusing exclusively connected the Ravens opening successful 2013. Jamison won the National Sports Media Association Maryland Sportswriter of the Year grant successful 2018, and helium authored a publication titled: Flying High: Stories of the Baltimore Ravens. He was the Ravens bushed writer for the Baltimore Sun from 2000-2011.

OWINGS MILLS, Md. -- Baltimore Ravens backmost Lamar Jackson apologized to the Buffalo Bills instrumentality that helium shoved successful retaliation Sunday night, but the two-time NFL Most Valuable Player offered immoderate advice.

"Just chill adjacent time," Jackson said aft Wednesday's practice. "You tin speech trash and worldly but support your hands to yourself."

During Sunday's 41-40 nonaccomplishment successful Buffalo, Jackson was celebrating with immoderate teammates adjacent the beforehand enactment of Highmark Stadium aft helium threw a 29-yard touchdown walk to DeAndre Hopkins precocious successful the 3rd quarter. The instrumentality wearing a reddish Bills jersey initially deed Hopkins connected the helmet earlier doing the aforesaid to Jackson, who instantly delivered a two-handed propulsion that sent the instrumentality falling backward.

"It conscionable happened," Jackson said. "I got pushed. I'm like, what? I wasn't adjacent reasoning astir maine being retired determination connected the field. My apologies to him."

Jackson said helium has not heard from the league astir immoderate imaginable discipline. The NFL did not instrumentality an email astir the altercation betwixt Jackson and the fan.

The instrumentality was ejected from the stadium Sunday night. The instrumentality besides has been "indefinitely banned from Bills and NFL stadiums," a squad authoritative told ESPN's Adam Schefter connected Monday.

About 10 minutes aft Jackson's incidental with the fan, Ravens moving backmost Derrick Henry was astir deed with a frozen h2o vessel successful the extremity portion connected the different broadside of the stadium aft his 29-yard touchdown tally successful the 4th quarter.

"Stuff similar that shouldn't beryllium happening. It's not WWE," Jackson said. "We're playing shot retired here. So conscionable support it to football. I cognize guys are going to speech trash. I cognize the opposing squad is going to speech trash. Keep it that way. But support your hands and support your objects to yourself."

Jackson had a lengthy speech with Ravens wide manager Eric DeCosta astir the incident. He besides spoke to manager John Harbaugh astir what happened.

"As acold arsenic I tin tell, we're astatine a existent bully spot with that," Harbaugh said.

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